The most tours of duty in the Vietnam War is 27 by Michael Badnarik. Mr.Badnarik was also the Libertarian Candidate for President in the 2004 election. He had 113 confirmed kills.
AnswerI do not see how this could be true, since Mr. Badnarik was born in 1956.
AnswerOr that a tour in Vietnam was 12 months, and the Vietnam War didn't last 27 years.
AnswerOr that Michael Badnarik was never in the military in the first place.
US Servicemen served in the US Armed Forces for the DURATION during WWII. After WWII, studies were done on combat fatique, along with a host of other experiences from WWII. General Harold K. Johnson, US Army Chief of Staff during the early Vietnam War years had been a POW & survived the Bataan Death March during WWII (against Japan). His experience, combined with post WWII studies showed that the average US Fighting Man "burned out" after 180 days in a "hostile environment." During the Korean War (1950-1953), Congress allowed US Servicemen (draftees) to serve only 24 months of active duty (verses WWII's DURATION of the war). This meant that a drafted serviceman could only serve ONE YEAR in a combat zone, because: When you subtract his induction, training, leave time, and transit time; the government's already used up more than half a year of the draftee's 2 years on active duty. During the Vietnam War, approximately 40,000 men a month were being drafted into the US Military. In order to "feed the beast" of Vietnam, those many men had to be fed into it, in order for the 12 month rotations to work. Because of the 180 day burn out factor, the Army Chief of Staff did not want to lengthen the 12 month tours. The US had a nearly unlimited pool of potential conscripts (draftees), and the general staff and congress wanted to "share the burden" with all potential conscripts by keeping the 12 month tour. Making it a longer tour, would only make it harder on the men in Vietnam while those that WERE NOT serving, could avoid combat.
For Army and Air Force, 12 months. For Marine Corps and Navy, 13 months. There were changes to these lengths through the course of the war - spanning from 1959 to 1973 when U.S. forces left South Vietnam.
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The first military advisors were sent to Viet Nam in 1959 and the last one came home in 1973. The normal tour of duty for a soldier sent to Viet Nam was 12 months. Some served multible tours. In some rare cases the tour of duty could be as much as 18 months.
Very very common. But one must be careful when using that word "tour." It might be different in the Marine Corps or Navy or Air Force. In the US Army the first tour was a year (12 months). After that, they were in six month increments. Therefore, if a vet says he did 3 tours with the US Army in Vietnam, then that's only 2 years (12 months for the first tour, plus 6 months for the second tour, then 6 months for his third and last tour). And any man doing over 18 months with the US Army in Vietnam almost certainly had to have re-upped (re-enlisted), and was no longer a draftee.
Admiral Rickover (4-star) - Father of the Nuclear Navy with 63 years active duty.
one year
ABC Scope - 1964 Vietnam Report Tour of Duty 2-33 was released on: USA: 16 April 1966
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During his tour of duty in Vietnam, Forrest was shot in the buttocks.
Oliver Stone
His tour of service from 1968 to 1970 only included the normal tour of duty in Vietnam of 12 months
The show was Nam: Tour Of Duty.
The tour of duty for a US Marine in Vietnam was thirteen months although a Marine could extend his tour in Vietnam .
There was China Beach about the Vietnam war that ran between 1988-1991. There was also "Tour of Duty" that ran 1987 - 1990, about at the "tours of duty" of several members of a platoon during the Vietnam War.
they are makeing a call of duty about Vietnam but its not called call of duty Vietnam its called call of duty black ops and black ops is a special operation in Vietnam
Each tour of duty is for two years. The longest service has been for 25 years.
The term used for a period of duty in a specific location or assignment is a "tour" (tour of duty).